Coiffe en plumes · R. D. Congo, Mangbetu · ID: 3048981
Vendu
500 €
Description
straw, feathers,
Relatively high hat made of straw wickerwork. The upper end quadrangular flattened and densely covered with chicken feathers. In the centre above the forehead a rosette of red parrot feathers.
The hat is held in place with bone needles and may be adorned with feathers.
This type of hat occurs in a great number of variations in a wide contiguous area of notheastern Congo among Makere, Malele, Mamvu, Mangbele, Mangbetu, Mayogo, Meegye, Bari, Budu and Zande.
Littérature comparée
Biebuyck, Daniel P. & Nelly van den Abbeele, The Power of Headdresses, Brussels 1984, p. 93